UPDATED: Former WESH-Channel 2 anchor Wendy Chioji has shared a health update via Facebook about her battle against cancer. It's not good news, but Chioji tells her story in a riveting, upbeat style. That's the Wendy way.

Chioji, a breast-cancer survivor, in September disclosed that she was battling thymic carcinoma, a rare cancer of the thymus gland.

@lastbesthope does he????? go walk the halls of medical wings of slow, painful d y i n g burn victims, go to treatment centers for cancer patients, go to the nic unit. Ask these places how many of their clients have mentioned "I asked god to heal me"....or "take me"...

She posted this detailed information Wednesday: "As it did last fall, my MRI detected something suspicious. Small, but big enough for Dr. Shroff to pick up the phone. Yesterday’s CT scan confirmed: The cancer is back. Or maybe it never left. Maybe despite my miserable winter with radiation and chemo, The Beast was just lurking there, waiting for me to gain some traction in my life so it could come roaring back out.

"There are 4-5 small tumors in my chest wall (could be worse… could be in my lungs. How ironic would that be, for me, ME, to get lung cancer?) that weren’t there in April. I only half-heard him say it then, but now, I vividly remember my Huntsman oncology quarterback, Dr Akerley telling me in October that if the radiation/chemo didn’t kill this cancer, that’s all he had up his sleeve. We were hoping the ghastly treatment would buy me more time, but it didn’t."

Chioji adds that she has no symptoms of anything bad, that she feels pretty good and that she is holding off on systemic chemo. Instead, she hopes to get in to a clinical trial and says she's not changing any of her plans for fall.

In a note to me Thursday, she wrote: "I am working with both my oncologist and Huntsman Cancer Center and the amazing folks at Livestrong to find a clinical trial. The response to my ask for help has been overwhelming. Now, I’m honing down what is coming in as a giant wave of offers to help into something I can use, if that makes sense. There's so much great energy from everyone, and I want to make sure it's not just shotgunned every which way. I’m doing research and trying to focus all that energy.

"I feel optimistic. Bad stuff happens, but it usually reveals an impressive amount of good stuff inside."

In 2001, Chioji went public with her breast-cancer battle. She left WESH in 2008 after 20 years at the NBC affiliate. She now lives in Park City, Utah, but she remains a popular and respected figure in Central Florida.

Earlier this year, Chioji climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, then she climbed Mount Fuji with her dad, and she plans to race the Ironman 70.3 Lake Tahoe next month.

She topped her Facebook entry Wednesday with a memorable headline: "Chapter Two is not Over, and just got more Dramatic."

"Three weeks ago, everything was fine," she writes. "Today, I’m looking for a Hail Mary pass. I’d say this is a fairly graphic illustration of the fact that you have to live EVERY day like it could be your last. Luckily, I’ve been doing that for a while. And I feel pretty good… no REALLY good, that I’ll get into a trial for a drug that will extend my life AND let me keep my hair."